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(tǐ yù guǎn) - sports centre, gymnasium in Mandarin

guǎn

Traditional: 體育館

Line drawing of 体育馆
Coloured illustration of 体育馆
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Translation

sports centre, gymnasium

Stroke order

Stroke order for 体

Stroke order for 育

Stroke order for 馆

Examples

The school's sports centre is very big.

lán

We play basketball in the sports centre.

The sports centre isn't open today.

The new sports centre can hold ten thousand people.

duànliàn

He goes to the sports centre to work out every afternoon.

体育馆 (tǐyùguǎn) is a sports centre or gymnasium, an indoor building for sport. 体育 (tǐyù) means "physical education, sport" and 馆 (guǎn) means "hall, building", the same 馆 found in 图书馆 (túshūguǎn), "library", and 博物馆 (bówùguǎn), "museum". Whenever you see 馆 on the end of a two-syllable word, it usually marks a public building of some kind.

It is where 运动 (yùndòng), "sport, exercise", actually happens indoors: basketball, badminton and swimming pools are all commonly housed in a 体育馆. A large stadium built mainly for outdoor sport is usually 体育场 (tǐyùchǎng) instead, with 场 (chǎng), "open ground", rather than 馆.

学校体育馆 (xuéxiào tǐyùguǎn), "school sports centre", and 去体育馆锻炼 (qù tǐyùguǎn duànliàn), "go to the sports centre to exercise", are the two most natural collocations to learn alongside it.

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This word is part of lesson 109.